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# Incubator PMC report for March 2026 The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. TODO add narrative ## Community ### New IPMC members: ### People who left the IPMC: ## New Podlings ## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month ## Graduations - list podling here The board has motions for the following: - Your podling here? ## Releases The following releases entered distribution during the month of February: ## IP Clearance ## Legal / Trademarks ## Infrastructure ## Miscellaneous ## Credits ## Table of Contents [Auron](#auron) [Baremaps](#baremaps) [BifroMQ](#bifromq) [Caldera](#caldera) [Iggy](#iggy) [KIE](#kie) [OpenServerless](#openserverless) [Otava](#otava) [OzHera](#ozhera) [Polaris](#polaris) [PouchDB](#pouchdb) [GeaFlow](#geaflow) -------------------- ## Auron Auron accelerates Apache Spark SQL by providing an alternative vectorized execution layer implemented in Rust, enabling native performance while maintaining full Spark compatibility. Auron has been incubating since 2025-08-05. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (auron) Becket Qin Comments: - [ ] (auron) Calvin Kirs Comments: - [ ] (auron) Hao Ding Comments: - [ ] (auron) Nicholas Jiang Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## Baremaps Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for creating, publishing, and operating online maps. Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacrétaz Comments: - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux Comments: - [ ] (baremaps) Julian Hyde Comments: - [ ] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs Comments: - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## BifroMQ BifroMQ is a Java-based, high-performance, distributed MQTT broker with native multi-tenancy support, designed for large-scale connections and message delivery. BifroMQ has been incubating since 2025-04-22. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Increase public exposure to expand the community user base and improve project visibility. 2. Continue delivering regular releases, streamline the release management process, and rotate the Release Manager role among key contributors. 3. Grow community participation beyond the original contributors, including attracting new reviewers and contributors. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? We understand that the trademark transfer has been completed based on publicly available trademark ownership information (e.g. via https://aiqicha.baidu.com/mark/s?q=BIFROMQ&t=7). However, we would appreciate receiving an official confirmation from ASF (a scanned copy of the signed transfer agreement would be sufficient) so that our company can properly archive the transfer documentation for internal compliance purposes. ### How has the community developed since the last report? We have observed increasing activity on GitHub and the dev@ mailing list. Our mentor (Chris) helped initiate a valuable discussion with the Apache IoTDB community, which may lead to potential collaboration between the two projects. We have set up a WeChat Account (“BifroMQ”) to publish Chinese translations of release announcements. All published content is derived from or links back to the official Apache BifroMQ website, and the account is not used for community discussions. ### How has the project developed since the last report? We completed our first incubating release after 3 RC votes. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2026-01-28 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? None so far ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. Our mentors have been helpful and responsive. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? We attempted to rename our WeChat account by adding the “Apache” prefix, based on PPMC consensus reached on the private mailing list. However, the request was rejected by the WeChat platform due to tightened naming policies, which now require an official authorization document from ASF to use “Apache” as an account prefix. We would appreciate guidance on whether there is a formal ASF process to request such an authorization letter for external platform compliance purposes. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (bifromq) Christofer Dutz Comments: - [ ] (bifromq) Xiangdong Huang Comments: - [ ] (bifromq) Calvin Kirs Comments: - [ ] (bifromq) Penghui Li Comments: - [ ] (bifromq) Sheng Wu Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## Caldera Caldera provides a modular platform for modeling, scripting, and executing adversary behavior. It allows users to construct emulation plans, provides agents for communicating with the command and control server, and enables users to evaluate security detections in a structured, scalable, and repeatable way. With the use of plug-ins and community-contributed features, Caldera supports a range of use cases including adversary emulation, purple teaming, detection engineering, and continuous security validation. Using Caldera, defenders can emulate known threat actor behavior and perform other red team activity to evaluate their organization’s defensive capabilities, test analytics, and find detection gaps. As a modular tool based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework, Caldera is designed to be extensible, intelligence-driven, and automation-friendly. Caldera has been incubating since 2025-12-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (caldera) Kevin Ratnasekera Comments: - [ ] (caldera) Francis Chuang Comments: - [ ] (caldera) PJ Fanning Comments: - [ ] (caldera) Gordon King Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## Iggy Iggy is a high-performance, ultra-low latency and large-scale persistent message streaming platform written in Rust. Iggy has been incubating since 2025-02-04. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (iggy) Hao Ding Comments: - [ ] (iggy) Yonik Seeley Comments: - [ ] (iggy) Zili Chen Comments: - [ ] (iggy) Hulk Lin Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## KIE KIE (Knowledge is Everything) is a community of solutions and supporting tooling for knowledge engineering and process automation, focusing on events, rules, and workflows. KIE has been incubating since 2023-01-13. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (kie) Brian Proffitt Comments: - [ ] (kie) Claus Ibsen Comments: - [ ] (kie) Andrea Cosentino Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## OpenServerless OpenServerless is an open source, cloud-agnostic, serverless platform. It offers a complete environment for serverless applications development, based on Kubernetes. With Apache OpenWhisk as its FaaS engine, it provides an unified developer experience with a plethora of services (SQL or noSQL databases, key-value stores, object storage, LLMs services, function schedulers) managed by the platform's core: the operator, along with tooling (the CLI) to simplify (and interact with) deployments, integrated ide and starter application and optimized runtimes integrated with the staters. OpenServerless has been incubating since 2024-06-17. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (openserverless) Bertrand Delacrétaz Comments: - [ ] (openserverless) Enrico Olivelli Comments: - [ ] (openserverless) François Papon Comments: - [ ] (openserverless) JB Onofré Comments: - [ ] (openserverless) PJ Fanning Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## Otava Otava, a command-line tool, written in Python, that detects statistically significant changes in time-series data stored either in databases or CSV files. Otava entered Incubation as Hunter Otava has been incubating since 2024-11-27. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (otava) Dave Fisher Comments: - [ ] (otava) Enrico Olivelli Comments: - [ ] (otava) Lari Hotari Comments: - [ ] (otava) Mick Semb Wever Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## OzHera OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud native, with the application as its core, integrating capabilities such as metric monitoring, trace tracking, logging, and alerting OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (ozhera) Yu Xiao Comments: - [ ] (ozhera) Yu Li Comments: - [ ] (ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera Comments: - [ ] (ozhera) Duo Zhang Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## Polaris Polaris is a catalog for data lakes. It provides new levels of choice, flexibility and control over data, with full enterprise security and Apache Iceberg interoperability across a multitude of engines and infrastructure. Polaris has been incubating since 2024-08-09. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (polaris) Holden Karau Comments: - [ ] (polaris) Kent Yao Comments: - [ ] (polaris) Ryan Blue Comments: - [ ] (polaris) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: - [ ] (polaris) François Papon Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## PouchDB PouchDB is an open-source JavaScript database inspired by Apache CouchDB that is designed to run well within the browser. PouchDB has been incubating since 2025-04-15. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? ### How has the project developed since the last report? ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: XXXX-XX-XX ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (pouchdb) PJ Fanning Comments: - [ ] (pouchdb) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: -------------------- ## GeaFlow GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph computing, and interactive graph analysis. GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06. ### Two most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Cultivate a more diverse community by engaging contributors and committers from varied organizations and global regions. 2. Implement predictable release cycles and maintain high project stability to encourage broad participation and adoption. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? No ### How has the community developed since the last report? The GeaFlow community has maintained its core contributor base over the past month, with existing contributors continuing to drive development. The community has remained active with ongoing contributions including new features, optimizations, and bugfix. Additionally, several PRs are currently under review. ### How has the project developed since the last report? Over the past month, the GeaFlow project has continued its progress with a focus on feature enhancements, code quality improvements, and infrastructure updates. Key developments include: - Introduced the CASTS operator to enhance GeaFlow's reasoning capabilities within the AI component (#737). - Refactored varint encoding/decoding constants to improve code readability and maintainability (#744). - Updated repository references in documentation to reflect the official Apache location (#746). - Fixed typos in log messages and comments across multiple files (#752). - New issues were opened, covering topics such as architecture design, documentation consistency, contributor guidance, and potential overflow bugs, indicating active community scrutiny and roadmap discussions. These updates demonstrate continued advancement in Graph+AI functionality, codebase health, project branding alignment, and community-driven evolution. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: The last version was released on November 19, 2025. ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes, we have received helpful guidance. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? N/A. ### Signed-off-by: - [ ] (GeaFlow) Willem Ning Jiang - [ ] (GeaFlow) xinwang - [ ] (GeaFlow) lzljs3620320 - [ ] (GeaFlow) jmclean - [ ] (GeaFlow) paulk ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: |